What is a guaranteed way to make organ donation, the chance to help someone who needs a transplant, into a dirty idea?Deny you and your family any rights at all on what happens to you, that's what.
read moreHarold Camping has apologized to his followers for being wrong on the Rapture - twice - and essentially costing them a lot of money. "Come now, let us reason together," said the Lord in Isaiah 1:18 and so we cannot be too harsh on him for doing the flawed, worldview-focused math I dissected in So The Rapture Is Saturday - Luckily The Grey's Anatomy Season Finale Was Last Night. Paul Krugman...
read moreIf you are sitting on giant oil fields, it seems like a bad idea to have villagers carrying around giant plastic bags full of natural gas. Welcome to rural China, where the distance between poor and rich is so dramatic they would rather have old people carrying around bombs than let them use some fuel to heat their homes.Anybody along the Keystone XL pipeline want to complain...
read moreWhile other states find creative ways to perhaps lessen abortions, notably by requiring a waiting period, it is no surprise that California wants to find ways to do more of them. That’s not a shock and it isn’t bad. Yes, California is kooky and anti-business and overwhelmingly progressive but in a diverse country, someone is going to be the most something. California is more left than...
read moreLet's be honest, if you are a Republican, you don't care about the environment because you received your own oil well when you registered to vote. And you like vampire babies. So you do not care about the emissions of your yacht.But if you are a rich Democrat, things are a little dicier. Buying pretend carbon offsets for a 29,000 square foot house can only get you so far. If you want...
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